Small towns in coal country can be hard places to grow up if you're a young environmentalist. But Ashley Funk is figuring out that the issues that drove her away to begin with are now driving her back to her hometown in Pennsylvania. Photo: Stephanie Strasburg / WBEZ

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Coming Home To Coal CountryA young environmentalist returns to her Pennsylvania hometown, where the issues that drove her away to begin with are now driving her back.

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